Her Escape, His Eternal Loss

boy into the house. The boy was Liam. His mother, a woman her father had had an affair with years ago, had just died. He had nowhere else to go. Chloe remembered the cold feeling in her stom

walked up to her table, a warm smile on his face. It was Ethan. He had seen her sitting there, looking sad, and he had bought her a coffee. He was her

rmentor. The man who had pulled her from one hell was now helping her brother push her into a new one, one far deeper and more terri

er brain, the constant lies from Liam, and now this final, cruel betrayal from Ethan. A str

singly steady. "Do whatever you wa

to have another "episode." Her sudden compliance was unsettling.

ttered to Liam, more to convince himself

Jenkins came to check on

oice a monotone. "The one that erases things.

er sit up, and his fingers brushed against the deep, painful bruises that Nurse Emily had left. He stoppe

you?" he demanded